> Hello,
> Need some help.  Hoping some of the smart people might know how to solve this.
> 
> I'd like to replace all name/value pairs in a delimited string  with the id 
> of the name/value pair in my reference table.
> Eg
> St=IL&city=Chicago&street=Madison
> To
> 13&50&247
> Assuming  St=IL  is id 13,  city=Chicago=50, street=Madison=247
> 
> My process is working but it's taking too long to convert the string to rows. 
> Any ideas for swaping out the cursor for a  sql trick?


Hello,

I would try to first explode all at once to a temp table using 
regexp_split_to_table,
then update with your IDs, and aggregate back to the desired form.

regards,

Marc Mamin

> Thanks in advance
> Doug
> 
> I'm currently cursoring thru the input rows, and then converting the string 
> to rows using  1st array_to_string,  now explode_array.
> -- Current code
>    sql_cmd := ' SELECT   hash_page , log_cs_uri_query  FROM 
> dim_wtlog_page_temp ';
>    FOR recset IN EXECUTE sql_cmd LOOP
>         insert into pagetag_temp (hash_page, wtlog_tagvalue_text)
>          select recset.hash_page   ,qry.* as wtlog_tagvalue_text
>          from explode_array (string_to_array(recset.log_cs_uri_query,'&') ) 
> qry  ;
>    END LOOP;
> 
> create or replace function explode_array( in_array anyarray)
> returns setof anyelement as
> $$
>     select ($1)[s] from generate_series(1,array_upper($1, 1)) as s;
> $$
> language sql immutable;
> 
> Doug Little
> 
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